Old Mole Variety Hour for April 26, 2010

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Air date:

Mon, 04/26/2010 - 12:00am

Criminal finance, The New Jim Crow, and McEwan's novel "Solar"

Hosted by Bill Resnick, this program deals with crime in the suites that goes unpunished and crime in the streets that is punished if committed while being black. We hear from a former federal finance regulator about the snowballing malfeasance in the finance industry; and from two incisive journalists about Goldman Sachs' raids on the public and the US Treasury. And our Book Mole reviews Ian McEwan's new novel about the intersection between enviornmental and personal disasters.

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1. Economist and writer Bill Black and the Old Mole's Bill Resnick clarify how high finance has been making money at our expense.

2. The Law and the Left: A conversation about Michelle Alexander's book The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, with attorney Mike Snedeker and Jan Haaken.

3. Tom Becker reads from two recent articles about the chicanery of Goldman Sachs.

4. Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Ian McEwan's new novel Solar.